Ash-receptacle.



1. EHALAINEN.

ASH RECEPTACLE. APPLICATION FILED IuLvaI. I9Ie.

Patented Aug. 21, 1917.

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SH-RECEITAGLE.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Muga 2li, limit.,

Application led July 3l, 1916. Serial No., 112,'4t39.

To all' whom t may concerne.

Be it known that Josnrnr EHALAINE'N, citizen of the United States, residing at Nesika, in the county of Lewis and State of Washington, have invented a certain new and useful improvement in Ash-Receptacles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in ash-receptacles which are adapted for use of smokers of cigarettes, cigars and tobacco pipes, and the object of my invention is to provide an ash-receptacle within which a. smoker may deposit ashes from his cigarette, cigar or pipe, together with the remains of burnt matches, and upon which he may dispose his pipe, cigarette or cigar as may be desired at different times.

A further object of my invention is to provide an ash-receptacle which can be readily emptied and cleaned, and which shall embody a container for unused matches, and a frictional surface for lighting matches, together with devices for extinguishing a lighted cigarette or cigar.

l accomplish these objects by devices illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein Figure l is a plan view of an ashreceptacle embodying my invention; Fi 2 is a view of the same in side elevation; Fig. 3 is a view of the same in vertical mid-sec tion on broken line w, m of Fig. l; and Fig. el is an enlarged view showing only a portion of the bottom side of the same.

Referring to the drawings, throughout which like reference numerals indicate like parts, 5 designates the body portion of a metal vessel of vase like form whose top portion is constricted to form a narrow opening and which is provided with an outwardly flaring flange top of said body portion 5, as shown more clearly in Fig. 3, which flaring flange 6 serves to conduct ashes or other matter into the interior of the body portion 5 in an obvious manner..

Disposed to fit tightly within the narrow opening through the top of the body portion 6 is the lower end portion 7 of a tube 8 which projects upwardly therefrom and whose upper end portion is flared outwardly as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and into the flaring opening of which tube 8 used matches, the butt ends of cigarettes and cigars, and the ashes from a pipe may be thrown to drop therethrough into the interior of the body portion 5.,

6 which is integral with the u y '8 may serve as a pipe rest and the inner roughened portion rl`he tube 8 is provided with a plurality of integral branch tubes 9 and 10 disposed adjacent to the inner bottom edge of the flaring flange 6, which tubes 9 and 10 eX- tend radially and obliquely upward adjacent to the inner surface of theflaring flange 6, in the manner indicated in Fig. 8 where the tubes 9 are shown in cross-section and one of the tubes 10 is indicated by dotted lines.

The tubes 9 have their walls flared outwardly and are of such form and internal diameter as will adapt them to serve to receive the burning end of a cigar which may be manipulated either to extinguish the burning cigar or to remove the ashes therefrom as may be desired, which ashes, in an obvious manner, may fall through said tubes 9 into and through the lower end of the tube 8 and into the interior of the body portion 5.. l

The tubes 10 are similar in all respects to the tubes 9 except that they are of smaller diameters to adapt them to receive the ashes or the burning tobacco of cigarettes, as may be desired, in response to a manipulation of such cigarettes, which ashes and burning tobacco would then nd their way into the interior of the body portion 5 in an obvious v manner.

Between all of adjacent ones of the branch tubes 9 and 10 are holes 1l which extend through the wall of the tube 8, the lower edges of said holes l1 being dispo-sed to register with the inner surface of the Haring flange 6 at the bottom end thereof, as shown more clearly in Fig. 3, through which holes 1l ashes and other matter may roll to nd their way from the Haring flange 6 into the interior of the body portion.

rllhe outwardly Haring top end of the tube `surface of the flaring ange 6 may serve as a temporary rest for a lighted cigar or cigarette.

Secured to the under surface of the har-v ing flange 6, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, at opposite points thereof, are receptacles l2 for unused matches, and around the outer surface of ,the body portion 5 extends a 13 upon which a match may be scratched to light it.

When a quantity of ashes and refuse matter has accumulated within the body portion 5 it may readily be removed therefrom through a circular doorway in its bottom side, within which doorway is closely htted a door 14 which is hinged to a lug 15 that is disposed on the inner side of the circular base portion of the body portion 5 to adapt said door 14 to swing downwardly from its closed position to open the doorway, and said door 14 is maintained in its closed position shown in Fig. 3 by a catch-spring 16 whose opposite ends are secured to the inner side of said circular base portion of said lody portion 5, as shown more clearly in The catch-spring 16 is made of a strip of spring sheet` metal whose central portion is distorted (as shown in Fig. 3) to form a cam-like surface so that the door 14, in the operation of closing it, may force the central portion of the s ring 16 toward the inner surface of the clrcular base of the body-portion 5 and when said door 14 has moved to its closed position then the central portion of said spring 16 will spring to its normal position to engage with the surface of the underside of the edge portion of said door 14 at a point opposite its hinge, as clearly indicated in Figs. 3 and 4.

As thus constructed my ash-receptacle is adapted to be placed in any convenient position, as on a desk, or table and there serve as a sanitary receptacle for ashes from pipes, cigarettes and cigars and for burning matches, butts of cigars and butts of cigarettes; and such ash-receptacle being made of metal, or other non-combustible material,

any burning matches or lighted cigars and cigarettes disposed therein cannot set fire to. surrounding objects.

Obviously, changes may be made in forms, dimensions and disposition of parts of my invention without departing from the spirit of 'my invention.

What I claim is:

An ash-receptacle of the class described.` comprising a vessel embodying a hollow body portion having a constricted opening in its top portion and an integral outwardly flaring annular iange that extends upwardly from said constricted opening; tube disposed with its bottom ond portion fitted within said opening to extend vertically upward therefrom and provided with a plurality of holes through its walls at a point adjacent to the edge of said constricted opening; a plurality of branch tubes connected with said vertical tube to project radially and obliquely upward therefrom; a hinged door in the bottom side of said body portion; and a catch operatively disposed normally to maintain said door in its closed position.

In witness whereof, I, hereunto subscribe my name this 22nd day of July, A. D., 1916.

JOSEPH EHALAINEN.

'Witnesses FRANK WARREN, MAY ARCHER CARR. 

